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.up so that when a target has UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

mortem) I.. LLOYD, or Mm'imAPoLIs, more.

' @um 1,348,817. Specification of Letters Patent-` Patented Aug. 3, 1920.

` Application filed September 16, 19N. Serial-No. 324,157. To aZZ wwm zv't may concern.- Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified or Be .1t known that I, RICHARD L. LLOYD, a metallic spring form of the pin removing citizen lof the United States, residing at 'Mlnneapolis, inthe county'of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, and do hereby declare the following to be a clear, and exact descriptionof the in- 4. p

This invention relates I. to amusement apparatus and more especially to that type of apparatus which a game may be, played w erem a suitable target set up in a field or vention consists inv improvements for retaining the targets in the field or on the playing Surface with va. suitable and suiicient force sition to the means hol by a projectile the released target is automatically withdrawn from the field.

It is an object of the present invention to improve the means forhold .the target in the lield; to improve the automatically removing means so as to e sary tension inthe remo means after b the target has been withdrawn from the field; and to improve the setting up means as `be more particularly described hereinafter relative tothe embodiment of the invention illustrated in th drawings, in which:

Figure l is a longitudinal .sectional view of a type of the gameinvolvlng targets of the character of ten-pins, and in which figure a plurality of the targets are shown in the field and certain of them withdrawn.

Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal section of a portion of the playing field the setting up means in the setting up posltlon.

Fig. 3 isa perspective view of one modification of the pin removing device, and

the targets Setv n impinged.

e accompanying AT h device.

As shown i down one or another of asetof pins, the pins indicated at 3. invention resides 1n the prov1s1on of a permanent magnet suitably countersunk in the Hoor or surface 2'to facilitate the setting up of the pin or plus omva remote point. I have found that such a magnet for each pin can .be effectively and economically produced b v'come detached from their respective posie mounted for or appropriate mechanism indicated as including supports 8 appropriatelv mounted with respect to the be operated with a series of upwardly extending posts or brackets 10 which threaded ends `11 to or device 13. is provided with a head 16 to this case, the bottomface of the armature 6.

of this invention resides inrEhe templet 7 is provided with a series of apertures 7 a of a slightly less diameter than the major transverse diameter of the body of the pins 3 so that when the upper end of the pins are inserted upwardly through the apertures 7 a the eyes 15 of the tension members 13 can be hooked over the hook-ends o'I' the brackets 10, these ends alining with the center of the respective apertures 7a. An advantage ot this construction is that when the platen is in the elevated position the tension device 13 will be placed under tension while the y,pins 3 are connectedvto the door as by the magnets pins are released by impact of the projectile, the tension members 13 withdraw the pins as the connection is broken, the released pin rising to a seat at the rim of its respective opening 7 a. When in this withdrawn position all tension of the `tension devices 13 is substantially relieved as the eye 15 is connected to the hook tion above the plate 7 as to just pins against the plate.

ln operation of the device the platen 7 is moved downwardly carrying with it the hooks to which the pins 3 are connected and in the lowermost position of the templet the pins are pressed onto for holding them in the desired set-up position. Thereupon the platen is returned-to its elevated position and the connecting devices 13 placed under suiiicient tension to lit or remove the released pins, as they are knocked from the magnets 4.

ln Fig. 4 there is shown a modified form of the tension device in which it is made of a coiled spring 14a nf a strength determined of course by the weight of the pin. By providing the head 16 on the tension devices it will be apparent that in the event of the breakage of any-of the devices the same can be withdrawn' readily from the aperture formed therefor axially in each of the pins; the head of course preventing the elastic 14 or the spring 14a from passing 'freely through and out at thel upper end of the pin.

lt will be seen that each of the magnets is entirely independent of each' other and that it is not necessary to provide any controlling switch or any source o electrical energy to secure an ecient, reliable, and very effective service of the magnetic system.

-What l claim is:

1. ln an amusement apparatus, a field, targets, and a carrier movable to and :from the iield, said carrier having a target of a diameter slightly less than the greatest transverse diameter of the target, elastic elements connecting said targets to the carrier, and means for temporarily holding the targets on the field. g

2. ln an amusement apparatus, a vfield,

and means for 4. instantly the 12 at such posihold th`e the proper magnets rmagnetic means therein;

targets,

hole for each' targets, and a carrier movable to and Jfrom the field, said carrier having a hole for each target of a greatest transverse diameter of the target, brackets on the upper side of said carrier having hooks located over the centers of said'holes, elastic elements connecting said hooks with said targets through said holes,

holding said targets temporarily to the held.

3. In lan amusement apparatus, a eld, targets, and a carrier movable to and from the field, said carrier having a hole or each target oa diameter slightly less than the eatest transverse diameter of the target,

brackets on the upper side of said carrier having hooks over the centers of said holes, elastic elements connecting said hooks with said targets, through said holes, and magnet ic means for holding said target temporarily to the ield.

4. In a game or other amusement apparatus, a target eld -having a series of magnets arranged with faces in a plane of the kfield, and targets plecewith a countersunk face, the said face each having an armature forming a seat for a removable tension member 5. ln an apparatus, having a eld with magnetic means therein; and a set of targets feach of which is provided with an armature piece complementary to the magnets, said armature piece being countersunk; and a carrier Jfor moving the targets toward the magnets and having elastic withdrawing means connecting the targets to the carrier, said elastic withdrawing means each having a -head countersunk in the said armatures.

6. In an apparatus, having a eld with and a set of targets each of which is provided with an armature piece complementary to the magnets, said armature piece being countersunk; and a carrier for moving the targets toward the magnets and having elastic withdrawing means connecting the targets to the carrier, said elastic withdrawing means each havinga head countersunk in the said armatures, the said connecting means being removably mounted in the respective targets anddetachably connected to the carrier. i"

7 ln an amusement apparatus, a held, anda carrier movable to and from the field, said carrier having a hole for each target of adiameter slightly less than the greatest transverse diameter of the target, means for elevating said targets ircm the field through the. holes in said carrier, and

diameter slightly less than the l means vfor temporarily holding the targets 2 onthe ield. h E X n testimony vv ereo a my si ature.

f RGHABD L. LLDYD. 

